Twas vain, they reached the other shore,
(Such dooms the Fates assign us),
The gold he piled went with his child,
And he was left there, minus.
From Poems and Parodies, by Phœbe Carey.
Boston, United States, 1854.
Lambeth Ferry.
A cove vot had come from Lambeth Town
Cried “Boatman do not tarry:
I don’t mind giving you ’arf-a-crown